Rice Storage Jar (Ulbong)
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Made from fine split bejuco rattan, this container has a coiled construction: alternate rows of stitches are set in right and left oblique slant to develop its special shape. This basket may be hung or placed on the floor. Its shape might have been influenced by oriental ceramics, both in the splayed foot and the loops on the shoulder and narrow mouth (Lane 1986: 68).
According to Schadenberg,this basket is from the Sapao valley (inventory 1888, MVW archives). Typical for Ifugao, it is used far beyond this area for storing rice grains. Similar baskets, fabricated from rods, are used on the Indonesian Island of Lombok, there serving as storage for cooked rice. (Sri Kuhnt-Saptodewo and Eric Anderson 2009: 49)
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MVW 30919
Origin
Northern Luzon, Lepanto, Valle Sapao; lfugao
Materials
Rattan
Physical Dimensions
H 18 cm, diameter Jar-shoulder) 16 cm
Provenance
Schadenberg; before 1888 Alexander Schadenberg (1851-1896) was a chemist and ethnographer, and a natural history enthusiast. Born in Breslau, Germany, he studied chemistry and botany. After receiving his Ph.D., he worked as the assistant director of the Potassic Salt Works in Stassfurt. In 1876, he went to worked as a chemist for the drug company Pablo Sartorius in Manila and in 1879, illness forced him to move back to Breslau. From 1881 to 1883, Schadenberg and his friend Otto Koch visited southern Mindanao to carry out ethnographic and linguistic studies, basing themselves in the Bagobo village of Sibulan. There, they also made ethnographic and natural history collections. Upon their return to Germany Schadenberg spent several years working on his collections, publishing, lecturing and corresponding with museums and anthropological societies throughout Europe. Schadenberg later returned to the Philippines and became a partner of Pablo Sartorius. He settled with his family in Vigan in 1885 and continued his excursions among the native people of the islands. After Schadenberg's death in 1896, his collections passed to several museums in Dresden, Vienna, Berlin, and Leiden.
Acquisition Date
before 1888
Display status
Not on display
References
The Philippines: Museum of Ethnology, Vienna : Early Collections. Vienna: Museum für Volkerkünde, 2009. Print.
Lane, Robert F. 1986. Philippine Basketry. An Appreciation. Manila. Bookmark Inc.
Lane, Robert F. 1986. Philippine Basketry. An Appreciation. Manila. Bookmark Inc.
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Translated from German by Google Translate Record accessed March 2021
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“Rice Storage Jar (Ulbong),” Mapping Philippine Material Culture, accessed April 26, 2024, https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/6025.
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